Enough Already

I usually avoid getting up on a soap box, but the ongoing wrangling over the budget has me in a state. It's clear that cutting back is necessary. It is also clear that deciding where to make those cuts has got to be almost impossible. Glad I don't have to do it. We are so divorced from the running of our country, understandably so. Most of us have all we can handle getting food on the table and making sure the kids are looked after. Which is part of the reason we have a representative government. We want jobs that pay a living wage, decent schools, health care, a roof over our heads. It's the American dream, right? We want our representatives in Washington, who are spending our taxes, to help us get these things. Unfortunately, they can't seem to avoid the tit for tat mentality. They spend far to much time talking and far too little time listening. They are willing to hold the country hostage to get their way. Kind of like a toddler having a tantrum. What do those of us in the cheap seats do? Give them a better model for behavior, I say. Rather than 'me first', let's try 'you first'. Make 'personal responsibility' a personal philosophy. Agree to disagree and get on with it already.